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VIFF review: Citizen Penn raises questions of pain, power, and poverty in Haiti

VIFF review: Citizen Penn raises questions of pain, power, and poverty in Haiti

Sean Penn rolls up his sleeves after the devastating 2010 earthquake

SCREENAdrian MackSeptember 22, 2020VIFF, Sean Penn, World Bank, Haiti, CORE, Documentary

VIFF review: Japan’s Special Actors is cartoonishly fun

VIFF review: Japan’s Special Actors is cartoonishly fun

Director of 2018 VIFF hit One Cut of the Dead returns with a meta zany caper about a cult, a stress ball, and a fainting actor.

SCREENAdrian MackSeptember 22, 2020VIFF, Visual Art, Shin'ichirô Ueda, One Cut of the Dead, Japanese Films, Cults

VIFF review: Frida Kahlo documentary delves deep into her most intense artworks

VIFF review: Frida Kahlo documentary delves deep into her most intense artworks

Art historians reveal new complexity in some of the famed painter’s best-known works

SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 22, 2020VIFF, Visual Art, Frida Kahlo, mexico, painters

VIFF opener Monkey Beach was a decade-plus labour of love for director Loretta Todd

VIFF opener Monkey Beach was a decade-plus labour of love for director Loretta Todd

The B.C. filmmaker aims to capture the magic of Kitamaat and Indigenous lore of Eden Robinson’s book

SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 21, 2020VIFF, Indigenous, Film Festival, Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson, Loretta Todd, Grace Dove, Kitamaat, Snotty Nose Rez Kids

VIFF review: Inconvenient Indian finds playful visual poetry in Thomas King’s plainspoken call to action

VIFF review: Inconvenient Indian finds playful visual poetry in Thomas King’s plainspoken call to action

A flow of imagery, old and new, subverts both stereotypes and documentary traditions

SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 18, 2020VIFF